Sorry but I cannot make any comments, even after the game finished 2 hrs ago, I am still pissed off with everything. Only thing I am proud of is the faithful, number one fans in England.
Almost forgot, Raphinha’s agent was sitting watching, apparently he has a meeting scheduled with him. Sky cameras picked him up
Leeds fans under investigation for racial abuse aimed at the Arsenal bench today. I thought it was that at the time when the ref went over there.
Probably telling him all the big money deals he had lined up for Jan have all fallen through because he’s been playing so sh*t recently.
When the fixture list came out I didn't expect any points from these December fixtures. Team is decimated by injuries,( small squad is obviously a problem that needs addressing) There are worse teams in this league than us. It’s going to be a white knuckle ride but let’s get behind the team and the manager. MOT.
Something we won't have to worry about then,thankfully couldn't find the bullets for my revolver, just catching up on here after watching motd, i used to think oh well there are three worst teams than us in the premier league, and you know what i don't think there are now, as were very poor defensively, no midfield and certainly no threat going forward, christ Liverpool next, will it be yet another tonking, the way were playing most certainly yes, goal difference could send us down. I am really worried about what i have seen lately.
36,000 top performances today and unfortunately one idiot. Did you hear the chanting during Marcelo's post match interview ? That was us lot all hyper on prawn sandwiches in the room next door.
I couldn't sleep thinking about the horror show. For the first time I have questions for Bielsa. Souness summed it up, he's asking players to do things they're not capable of. In his interview he said we could have won the 2nd half so he couldn't have seen that Arsenal took their foot off being as they were 3-0 up (without Meslier it would have been many more). The most annoying thing that I saw yesterday was every time we got a free kick in our own half, when we could relieve the pressure, we played it short and put ourselves straight back in the ****. We did the same against Citeh We run the most because we don't run sensibly. The difference was obvious last night, the Arsenal forwards pressed our backs as a group, closing the space like they were trapping an animal. They didn't have to run about to do it, they just cut out the passing options until it went back to Meslier. They knew that Meslier's ball was going wide so put a man on the winger or full back so he had to go longer. Most times it went straight out of play abd we were in the **** again. At the other end you had Raphinha or Geldhardt chasing the ball as it was passed along the backs. There was no system so it was just wasting energy like kids do. I read that Klich and Forshaw were ****. I don't agree. They got through a huge amount of work, especially Forshaw, but they were outnumbered in midfield. Going back to what annoyed me about the free kicks, when you're under the kosh and you get a free kick you need to push everyone out and get rid of it. Meslier should be playing a long ball to the wing in the other half. We really need players back but even when they come back we need to be better when we get in the final third (Arsenal's finishing was clinical) and we need to run more sensibly. They had much more space to run into when attacking whereas we always seemed to be running into a wall of players. Their midfield and defence worked as a unit whereas we were disjointed. One of the big factors, maybe because we were missing so many, was we weren't a unit. The player with the ball would wait until he's drawn the defender, then pass, opening up huge gaps. I'm pretty sure we never caught them offside once. Probably because we had no pace at the back either. I hate to say it, but we've got to adapt. Last night it was literally men against boys and any team would have taken us to bits. The biggest problem was that they had three young players who are light years ahead of ours. Raphinha looks fed up with it.
I forgot to say that you win nothing for honour. Against West Ham Arteta dragged an injured player back onto the pitch to kill the game. We should be faking covid tests to get games called off like I bet other teams are. The fans, apart from a couple of wasters behind the Arsenal bench, were magnificent.
How was the Xaka challenge on Raphinha not at least a yellow? Especially as it was supposedly reviewed. A player at that level does not miss time a challenge that badly. He deliberately tried to injure Raphinha. It was cynical and should have been a red. Gelhardt's challenge, that he got booked for, was clumsy but he caught the back of the heel. There was no intent to injure. When you're at the bottom these things seem to happen
And yet we were beaten by 2 deflections, plus the confidence & momentum this luck gave to Arse. Not bad for having a RB who's a shiite CB & a CB straight in after 4 months out. The clearly biased ref (touched on above) certainly didn't help either. Xhaka should have got his 12th red card. No question. I think too many people are starting to believe the shiite spouted by the many (allegedly) expert pundits. #ibwt
I’ll tell you what I did notice, Gelhardt had an empty tank at the end and touching on what you said, I’m pretty sure he was man marking their number 5 when pressing. Every time their keeper had the ball their number 5 would jog slowly forward towards the edge of the centre circle and you could see Geldhardt following him but looking back towards their keeper wondering should he be doing this. It was giving Ramsey so many options. All the top teams are exploiting our rigid man marking system, they’re pulling us out of shape and I’ve never seen us looking more tired than the opposition so often in the final 15 minutes.
I think there is a difference mate between the likes of Souness and Neville offering their views and those who’ve managed and coached and played at the top level compared to the likes of Agbonlahor and Whelan who are employed or used by the click bait sites. Blono is right too, Bielsa is too honest, it could cost us relegation. The minute Llorente tested positive he should have pulled the Covid card.
I think both were yellow, both could have been red, Joffy went to ground, Xaka never, that was the only difference Sky commentary could see although they did say at the time Xaka was slightly fortunate not to see red, slow motion showed both caught in near on the exact same place
When Souness pointed the finger at Drameh for being at fault for a goal JB jumped in and said he's only a kid. Souness shot back that he's 20 so not a kid and been coached for over 10 years so it's no excuse.
